WILLIAM PENN BANK
401(k) RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2023 and 2022
Note 1: Description of Plan
On August 19, 1979, William Penn Bank (the Bank), a wholly owned subsidiary of William Penn Bancorporation (the Company), established and adopted the William Penn Bank 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (the Plan) for the benefit of its eligible employees.
Effective November 1, 2021, the Plan Administrator is the William Penn Bank Retirement Plan Administration Committee, the Trustee is Fidelity Management Trust Company, and Fidelity Investments is the recordkeeper.
This Plan is a defined contribution plan, which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. As a defined contribution plan, it is not covered under Title IV of ERISA and, therefore, benefits are not insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
On January 1, 2018, the Plan adopted the safe harbor matching contribution provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), which provides for Employer Safe Harbor Matching Contributions of 100% of the first 6% of participants' contributions (Safe Harbor Matching Contributions). All regular matching contributions for participants and all Safe Harbor Matching Contributions are immediately 100% vested. With this election, the Plan is not subject to annual non-discrimination testing because, in lieu of testing, the employer deposits a mandatory percentage of fully vested matching contributions.
On March 27, 2020, Congress signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which included several relief provisions available to tax-qualified retirement plans and their participants. The Company has evaluated the relief provisions available to plan participants under the CARES Act and has implemented the waiver of required minimum distributions during 2020. This provision was adopted into the Plan effective March 27, 2020.
On December 29, 2022, the SECURE 2.0 Act was signed into law to enhance the retirement savings system. Principle areas of the act addressed automatic enrollment, required minimum distributions (RMD), and catch-up contributions. There are provisions which are currently part of the Plan design, including the provisions for automatic enrollment and the RMD provisions required for 2023 which have been adopted by the Plan. All provisions of SECURE 2.0 Act with effective dates in 2024 and beyond will be evaluated and implemented in accordance with future regulations and guidance.
The following description of the Plan provides only general information. Participants should refer to the plan document or the summary plan description for a more complete description of the Plan’s provisions.
Eligibility
Certain full and part-time regular employees of the Bank who have met the Plan’s minimum age requirement of 21 years of age are eligible to participate in the Plan. Collectively bargained employees, residents of Puerto Rico, leased employees, and nonresident aliens are not eligible to participate in the Plan, except as may otherwise be required to preserve the qualified status of the Plan.
Contributions
Participant Contributions: Under the Plan, participants may elect to make annual payroll deductions of 1% to 100% of their total compensation, not to exceed $22,500 and $20,500 in 2023 and 2022, respectively, in accordance with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations. Participants who were 50 years of age or older at December 31, 2023 and 2022, were eligible to make additional elective deferral contributions of $7,500 and $6,500 in 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Participants may elect to start, increase, reduce or suspend contributions at any time during the year. Changes to a participant's contribution percentage are effective as of the first day of the next month or as soon as administratively possible. Contributions made by participants are credited to their individual accounts and can be made on a pre-tax or after-tax (Roth) basis assuming applicable regulations set forth in the IRC are satisfied. The Plan includes an auto-enrollment provision whereby all newly eligible employees are automatically enrolled in the Plan, once eligible, unless they affirmatively elect not to participate. The contribution percentage at automatic enrollment is 6% of the participant's eligible compensation. If the participant has not selected an investment option, the contributions are invested in the Plan’s default option, which is the Fidelity Investments target date fund based on the participant's date of birth.
Employers' Contributions: All contributions made by the employer on the participants’ behalf are made on a pre-tax basis. The